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Chicago examiner vol vii no 26 a m wednesday january 20 1909 14 pages pricf onf cfnt delivered hy carrier i-ru^l uiinh i.him 30 cents per month japan charges bad faith aid fiobseveltes alarmed california governor wired to hoid up nipponese legisla tion pending developments mikado's pride hurt takahira demands explana tion and refuses to consider state sovereignty feature washington d c jan 19 the government of japan has lodged with president roose velt a formal protest which amounts to a charge of bad faith on the part of the united states the protest â€” based upon the pro posed legislation in california against japanese subjects â€” was presented to secretary of state root by baron taka hira the japanese ambassador in the early part of last week events crys tallized rapidly and the situation was becoming acute when the president decided to act he had a long confer ence witb secretary root on saturday previous to this there was written a let ter to governor james h glllett of cali forniaâ€”made public at the white house to-day in which the president begs that legislation antagonistic to japanese sub jects which was the basis of baron taka hlra's protest be held up in this letter the president only thinly conceals his fear that combined agitation along anti-japanese lines will end in a rupture between the two nations wires to stop legislation it was after this letter was written when it was seen that the proposed cali fornia legislation might be enacted into law before thi president's letter could reach gorernor gillett that a telegram which waa made public to-day was sent by the president to the governor and the expedient was resorted to of showing up public sentiment by means of the speech which the president delivered at the methodist mass meeting last night president roosevelt's telegram to gov ernor gillett is as follows we are greatly concerned at newspaper reports on anti-japanese legislation in cal ifornia's legislature have written you at length on the subject earnestly hope that no progress will be mnde on bills until yon have a chance to receive my letter and if necessary to discuss its contents with leaders of two houses my knowledge of the international situation particularly ith reference to emigration of japanese laborers from united states satisfies me that passage of proposed leglislation would be of incalculable damage to state of cali fornia as well as to whole union governor gillett sent the following reply telegram received have caused bills to be held up until i can hear from yon copies of bills introduced affecting japa nese together with briefs on same mailed tei you waited till fleet sailed the significant remark was made at the navy department to-day that lt was curious that japan waited to lodge her protest until the american battleship fleet had steamed into atlantic waters again no concealment is made here of the be lief that the situation is serious both the president and secretary root believe the california legislative programme is full of menace to the peace and that the danger ls immediate and positive the japanese ambassador bluntly in formed the secretary of state that the united states is not keeping faith under the agreement reached a year agu with japan on the immigration question where as japan ls strictly living np to that agree ment the examiner correspondent is informed positively that japan feels that her honor is questioned in the proposed california legislation and in his personal communica tion to secretary root baron takahira made no concealment of the fact that his nation's pride had been hurt the diplomat recurred to the old ques tion of the right of a state to commit acts that are inconsistent and at variance with the obligations of the national gov ernment he refused to be mollified by the explanations made to him by secretary root regarding the sovereignty of the in dividual state doesn't know state's rights takahira bluntly informed secretary root that after all his government does not know california in the premises japan's agreement having been entered into with the united states government in this condition the matter rests the president and secretary root have had frequent conferences and that the former feels how serious the situation is is seen in his remarks last night his appeal to governor gillett is further proof the president feels strongly that the ob jection to japanese immigration in this country is fast being settled by the agree ment in existence between the united states and japan by this agreement the president points out 2,000 more japanese have left america in thc past six mouths than have come in he is convinced that japan is sillcere ta ther intentions to greatly reduce the num senators chosen for wexi six years r t*b.e following senators were â– *â– elected yesterday in various states or their election was as sured by action of legislative cau causes elihu root new york hep 3 f shively zndlana . . dem t p gore oklahoma dem oeo b chamberlain oregon dem t b brandegree conn bep boies penrose penn hep j h oallinffer n h bep li s overman n c dem j p clarke a.rk dem cl crawford s d bep eeed smoot utah bep a b cummins lowa bep c j kug-fcez colo dem eo-elected abruzzi renounces rank to marry miss elkins paris newspaper asserts failure to receive admiralty as wed ding preliminary explains duke's se clusion during earthquake relief i special cable to the examiner paris jan 10.-the petit parisieu to morrow will print under the spread head un coup de theatre a long story as serting that the duke of the abruzzi has handed king victor his resignation as an officer of the italian navy and also re nounced his rank and privileges as a mem ber of the royal house of savoy in order to marry katherine elkins according to the story the duke took this step after waiting in vain for a prom ised promotion to the rank of admiral which had been decided upon at a confer ence of the royal family as a necessary preliminary ot the sanction of the proposed marriage with the american girl the story hae not yet beeu confirmed although it would seem to account for the silence and seclusion of the adventurous young duke during the trying times fol lowing the sicilian earthquake the petit parisien asserts that wheu the duke of the abruzzi returned to italy after his last visit to the united states he informed the king of his desire to marry miss elkins the king was dlspojifid to consent bnt thought it advisable to sum mon a family council queen margherlta and the duke of genoa opposed the marri age while the count of turin and the duke of aosta pleaded the lover's cause the king found himself in an embarrass ing position and il was decided to tem porize the king asked the duke to post pone an official announcement of his en gagement until he had been appointed ad j miral two months ago the duke terminat j ed his service ae a captain and since then j has been waiting in turin for his promo 1 tion and for permission to many but neither has been granted him the petit parisien asserts tbat the duke therefore wrote to the king renouncing his rank and privileges in order that a private gentleman he might be free to marry miss elkins the king refused to accept the duke's resignation and there the matter stands hetty green's health shattered by business america's richest woman takes-rest cure in hoboken flat new tork jan 19 mrs hetty green the richest woman in america ls taking the rest cure ln hoboken she is in rather poor health as the result of too close attention to business and is not visit ing her new york office these days she remains in her apartments in a flat house on bloomfleld street until late in the fore noon and then goes for s walk miss syl via green is spending the winter with her mother while she is not taking an active part in social gaiety of the city she is not entirely secluding herself from society and has made the acquaintance of several families in the upper section w n c carlton is to be newberry librarian trinity college man is selected to succeed john vance cheney william n c carlton librarian of trin ity college of hartford conn has ac cepted a call to succeed john vance cheney as superintendent of the newberry library and will come to Chicago about july 1 to assume his new duties mr cheney filed his resignation some time ago and announces that he will go to cali fornia to live he will remain in active charge of the library until the arrival of mr carlton to whom thc offer of the superlntendency was tendered by the board of trustees gooley surrenders to art institute investigation committee sud denly collapses book trust connection still a secret injunction is promised teachers to seek courts for credit continuation if school head refuses the board of education has dropped its contest with the art institftte of Chicago school trustee alfred r urion chairman of the school board's investigating commit tee carried the white flag of surrender to charles u hutchinson of the art institute yesterday this surprising termination of a contro versy that has agitated Chicago for several days ine^ns that it will probably never be disclosed whether the attack made by su perintendent cooley upon the art institute was actually instigated by the schoolbook trust as has been freely charged by the art institute's defenders and by the chi cago teachers federation leaders declines to investigate chairman urion pointed out that he had gone on record with the statement that his committee wÂ»s not an investigating ; committee then be announced to the j astonished president of the art institute i that the committee would live up to his de 1 scrlption of its non-investigating functions | and that it would not investigate at least not for some time it was then arranged that thc beariug be adjourned subject to the call of the chairman this means that the hearing has beeu postponed indefinitely perhaps permanent ly for it developed later that mr urion is going out of town for a loug trip and | during his absence nobody else can call i the committee together the next meeting on this subject will probably be held behind closed doors in tht union league club where mr cooley wili be iu the hands of his friends said school trustee loul f post when he heard of the surrender of cooley's friends ] in fact it is very likely a meeting has ] already beet held there investigation disclosed that this was cor ! reet tt was learned that mr cooley mr ilutehjusofi and nine other persons said tot be meu'.i.ors of the board of education pri rc-pityeiitaiives of the art institute met atj luncheon iu the clnb yesterday afternoou i â– ami discussed the cooley art institute con j i trovcrsy j injunction suit possible j if the art institute is not soon restored to the accredited list it is probable that an injunction suit will be filed by members of j the Chicago teachers federation to re strain superintendent cooley front forbid ding the school teachers to take the promo tional credit courses at that institution oniy two members of the committee chairman urion and trustee ii j spiegel were present when the decision to have no meeting was made public among the other members of the board on hand to hear the discussion were trustees post sonsteby guerin mills robiue dawes and schneider none of whom knew any thing mrs ella f young principal of the Chicago normal school and super intendent cooley whose uames had been signed to the report iu which the art in stitute was attacked arrived late there was a flood of speculation as to the causes that promoted the indefinite postponement among the questions asked b.v trustees representatives of the teachers and others were is somebody to be given a coat of whitewash v why were the cooleyites afraid to go on with the investigation of the alleged relations betweeu cooley's office and the prang publishing company a branch of the school book trust did the expected exposure of thc school book trust's influence in causing the cooley attack ou the art institute have anything to do with the postponement of the hear ing mr hutchinson was asked i will not discuss that matter at this time lt would hardly be proper he said is there any arrangement for restoring the art institute to the list of institutions at which teachers may take promotional credits that's another subject that i will not discuss at this time coward and liar fly in evanston's council alderman norkett applies terms to turnock then makes peace alderman turnock you are a coward and liar when you state that i am playing to the gallery shouted alderman william a norkett of evanston last night in the council meeting after much loud talk mayor padeu succeeded in restoring order before a tight occurred the incident followed the defeat of norkett's ordinance to raise the pay of three men in the water department he had accused his colletigueri of being afraid to use the mon ey of the city this angered turnock who shouted that norkett was playing to the gallery the two men left the council chamber arm in arm after apolo gies and handshakes grover cleveland's old home put up for sale princeton n j jan 19 the home of the late grover cleveland here is ad vertised for sale the house had been mr cleveland's home ever since his retirement from the white house march 4 1597 it was purchased by him after he relinquished the presidency and soon after he delivered the sesquicentennial address at princeton university which was one of bis lost of ficial acts as president a joy ride in dixie heroine burned in theater explosion woman stops panic when picture machine sets show place afire by an explosion of a moving picture film in the crescent o-cent theater 5827 went worth avenue last night two men and a woman were burned and a pattic was caused among fifty persons who were in the place the injured were thomas r colon twen ty-eight years old operator of picture ma chine 1703 michigau avenue burned about the face head arms and body taken to his borne after being attended by a physician condition serious james gibson twenty-four years old 1410 ashland avenue colon's assistant hurhed about face head and arms while trying to extinguish the flames mrs edith smith thirty-five years old piano player 5002 fifth avenue burned about the hands while assisting gibson in ex tinguishing the tire ou colon's clothing mrs smith was taken to a physician's office and later home the theater which is owned by w h sergeant was damaged 250 colon was in a small fireproof box above the entrance to the theater operating the machine when it exploded â€¢ his clothing was ignited before he could climb down a ladder into the box office of the theater and run into the street he was badly burned mrs smith was sitting at the piano and realizing what occurred she as sisted the men womeu and children into the street and there she saw gibson trying to extiuguish the flames on colon's cloth ing in putting them out mrs smith was burned as was gibson firemen extinguished the blaze before the flpmes spread from the fireproof box to other parts of the theater which is a two-story brick building when the fire men arrived the smoke in the place was dense and it was with difficulty they were able to fight the flames Chicago students win laurels at harvard oscar mayer and forrest cooke elected to phi beta kappa boston mass jan hi oscar g mayer 09 and korrest h cooke 10 both of Chicago were yesterday elected to the phi beta kappa society at har vard together with george e roosevelt of new york the president's nephew and nineteen other leaders in academic work additional honors fell to mr cooke a junior who was chosen as orator of the chapter on phi beta kappa day at the coming commencement election to the society is based entirely ou scholarship and good character and is the highest hooor iu a scholastic way that can be won in col lege the list also includes tien tin chao of tientsin china kevork costikyan an armenian student and haus vou kalteu beru of madison wis but a native of germany want a practical nurse phone ran dolph 2500 m0 * senate votes to raise salary of president to 100,000 a year vice president speaker and supreme court justices also have pay boosted by upper house washington d c jan 19.-presi deut-elect taft's salary will be 100,000 speaker cannon's 13,000 vice-president sherman's 15,000 chief justice fuller's 13,000 and his eight associates 14,500 a year under the salary bill which passed the senate to-day mr roosevelt now gets 50,000 mr fairbanks 12,000 and mr cannon 12,000 for the latter two positions the increase will appear to be 3,000 but inasmuch as allowances for carriages horses drivers and their maintenance are stricken from the present appropriation bill their in comes il not be greatly enhanced the president's compensation because that is what seuator bailey insisted it should be designated instead ot salary is increased about 40,000 he ls not to be given 25,000 for traveling expenses as the law now provides but must pay for his special car but according to in formation furnished by senator clay on the floor to-day president roosevelt spends annually only about 8,000 of bis allow ance turniug the remaining 17,000 into the treasury circuit judges now receiving 7,000 and federal district judges receiving 0,000 will have their salaries increased at to-morrow's session the former probably being raised to 10,000 and the latter to 7,500 religious maniac hunts for roosevelt as cain capital police arrest c n evans in house subway washington jan 19.-charles n p evans said to be afflicted with religious insanity was arrested to-day by the cap it police he was found in the house subway where he was hunting for presi dent roosevelt he told the police he had discovered that the president is cain who killed abel god had instructed him he said to seek out president roosevelt and has promised that no barm shall come to him ouly a few days ago the capitol po lice had to deal with a crank who wns searching for george washington the first president he said had given him some seed from thp fauious cherry tree and he wanted to return it thaw fears mind test in new york county white plains n y jan 19.-rather than have his sanity tested ln new york county harry thaw through his attor neys olÂ»tained an order from justice tomp kins to-day dismissing the writ of habeas corpus grauted last week under which he was to have appeared before a judge in new york county to have his mental con dition investigated the action of thaw's attorney came as a complete surprise the securing of a new trial had beeu regarded as the flrst step in gaining his freedom from matteawau although it was conceded by those familiar with the case that dis trict attorney jerome had gained a stron poiut in having the case transferred to new york rflauty tolb wife of love for mrs atherton captain stirling openly ad mired rival divorce pe titioner testifies edinburgh jan 19 members of the smart set of london society were present in large numbers in the court of sessions here to-day for the first day's hearing of the stirling divorce case in which cross petitions were filed by john alexander stirling former lieutenant of the king's guards and laird of kippendavle perth shire and his wife formerly clara eliza beth taylor of washington both of the persons named in the case were in court to-day lord northland was accompanied by his father earl ranfurly mrs mabel louise atherton named by mrs stirling sat alone close to the wit ness box while mrs stirling told how she had stolen her husband's love after our matrlage in october 1904 she said i kept the matter secret at my husband's request until he could resign his commission after beiifg remarried in church in washington we returned to perthshire no married couple were ever happier than we until mrs atherton ap peared my husband introduced me to her at clarldge's and asked me to be a friend to her because she felt deserted since her divorce and her subsequent breach of promise suit against captain yarde buller i would have been suspicious had she not declared that yarde buller was the only man she could ever love says he loved mrs atherton she next told of the trip that she and her husband and mrs atherton and lord northland took to paris there her hus band refused to occupy the same room with her at the hotel and one morning she found him at the side of mrs ather tcn's bed after several days during which her hus band spoke scarcely a word to her spend ing the time in mrs atherton's company she called him aside and said jack are you in love with mrs ather ton he answered 1 don't know but i think i must be kiddie i don't think we should have married mrs stirling said she returned to the hotel weeping and that night she said to mrs atherton nancy i believe jack is in love with you mrs atherton shrugged her shoulders and answered that's absurd for i love only one man captain yards buller continuing mrs stirling said when we returned to amberly cottage jack refused to occupy my room white mrs athertou occupied a room communi cating with thc bathroom saying she had a sentimental feeling for lt because cap tain yarde ittiller had slept there later i saw jack sitting on mrs atherton's bed after midnight occupied house in absence when i left to visit america both jack and mrs atherton saw me off i never hopkins is 27 votes short in joint caucus chances lessen in party round-up after he fails on assembly floors lacks 13 votes in house allies jubilant and count on deadlock in joint bal loting to-day deneen's hard workvain hurls all his officeholders into balance to help the aurora man springfield 111 jan 19 senator albert j hopkins ls still struggling with an adverse fate he had a roll call at noon to-day in the separate houses of the general assembly and a joint caucus to-night j of the republican members of tnese 7 two houses yet he canuo ead his title clear to another term ia the na tional senate the roll call gave the senator a total of 87 votes 61 in the house and 26 in the senate if he had had 13 more votes in the house at that time lie would have won but when the two houses meet in joint session to-mor row he will need 15 more than i â€¢ total of yesterday provided all tha members are present has only 75 in caucus in the joint caucus to-night that was called at the behest of governor deneen to satisfy the demand of hopkins he counted a total of seventy-five votes twenty-eight from the senate and forty-seven from the house that is twenty-seven votes short of a majority of the jolnr membership his friends counted three absentees as be ing certainly for hopkins but that brought the total np to bnt seventy-eight leaving him twenty four votes short of control â– Â»â€¢ a total of fifty-one members of both houses ten senators and forty-one repre sentauvesâ€”stayed out of the caucus of that number nineteen voted for hopkins ea the roll call to-day and it ie cutu get them all he would still be five votes short of enough on the joint ballot to-morrow however it is a eertainty that he will not get all he may get fifteen giving him a total of ninety-three or nine less than enough to make victory certain on the face of the returns the deadlock the anti-hopkins men have hoped for schemed for and prayed f â€¢ 5 ichfoyca consequently the antis are full of fight and happy the pro-hopkins men are making only a bluff at smiling and are only hang ing on and hoping sims a hopkins hopeful we've got them whipped declared david b shauahan of the antis when he heard of the failure of the caucus well we hope we'll win and it ook like they ought to come around said dis trict attorney sims of the hopkins ca.-np the hopkins forces made theft great fight to-day wheu the antis were without their chief troublemaker be it understood loin imer was in Chicago attending the funeral of mayor busse's father but ji got oack to-night at midnight well satisfied with ths condition and ready to do a little planning and scheming on his own account the hopkins effort also bad the full strength of governor deneen th gov ernor was called upon to deliver votes ?.. â€¢" soon as the noonday roll r-nll showed tha senator needed them and he did his best or at least he gave ever appearance of doing his best he not only worked him self but he called npon all hlb henchmen to do their best every state and county officeholder the governor can control was in the game struggling in tho fine old nay that they used to accomplish things to make deliveries bosses have little influence so far as the bosses wen charlea vatl t j healy hanby jones and men like that they did not lift a pound not a mag who had voted i;r ' st hopliiis wi â™¦ tru the caucus in response to tho pleau.jbi cl the bosses with the governor it was a different matter he was out to make good and he turned over a total of seven votes to tho auburn-haired auroran who is for the time j being his ally that seven the goverumdÃŸ took as though by the scruffs of their nei^b and landed them in the hopkins cau^h after they had voted for either fossfl mason ou the roll calls of their respec^b houses those seven were senators bro-ih ettelson jones and lundberg and kep^h sentatlves abbey hull and pierson â– those who attended the caucus il bound by it according to general uudeh standing but no rule was passed to tbih effect consequently no one can say hcvl^b long they are to be bound or when thejh shall break to some candidate other tiaj hopkins ____\ mo those actually and tim on sth page 3d column j continued on sth page 2d couinya r forecast il jd vicinity â€” fair and thursday slight changes fresh west j g to southerly winds afffl the inauguration two 3'ears ago of the up-to date methods sine em ployed by the examiner for the bringing together of employer and employe have been so satisfactory that the examiner employment ex change is now recognized among employers as an in valuable agency in the em 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Chicago examiner vol vii no 26 a m wednesday january 20 1909 14 pages pricf onf cfnt delivered hy carrier i-ru^l uiinh i.him 30 cents per month japan charges bad faith aid fiobseveltes alarmed california governor wired to hoid up nipponese legisla tion pending developments mikado's pride hurt takahira demands explana tion and refuses to consider state sovereignty feature washington d c jan 19 the government of japan has lodged with president roose velt a formal protest which amounts to a charge of bad faith on the part of the united states the protest â€” based upon the pro posed legislation in california against japanese subjects â€” was presented to secretary of state root by baron taka hira the japanese ambassador in the early part of last week events crys tallized rapidly and the situation was becoming acute when the president decided to act he had a long confer ence witb secretary root on saturday previous to this there was written a let ter to governor james h glllett of cali forniaâ€”made public at the white house to-day in which the president begs that legislation antagonistic to japanese sub jects which was the basis of baron taka hlra's protest be held up in this letter the president only thinly conceals his fear that combined agitation along anti-japanese lines will end in a rupture between the two nations wires to stop legislation it was after this letter was written when it was seen that the proposed cali fornia legislation might be enacted into law before thi president's letter could reach gorernor gillett that a telegram which waa made public to-day was sent by the president to the governor and the expedient was resorted to of showing up public sentiment by means of the speech which the president delivered at the methodist mass meeting last night president roosevelt's telegram to gov ernor gillett is as follows we are greatly concerned at newspaper reports on anti-japanese legislation in cal ifornia's legislature have written you at length on the subject earnestly hope that no progress will be mnde on bills until yon have a chance to receive my letter and if necessary to discuss its contents with leaders of two houses my knowledge of the international situation particularly ith reference to emigration of japanese laborers from united states satisfies me that passage of proposed leglislation would be of incalculable damage to state of cali fornia as well as to whole union governor gillett sent the following reply telegram received have caused bills to be held up until i can hear from yon copies of bills introduced affecting japa nese together with briefs on same mailed tei you waited till fleet sailed the significant remark was made at the navy department to-day that lt was curious that japan waited to lodge her protest until the american battleship fleet had steamed into atlantic waters again no concealment is made here of the be lief that the situation is serious both the president and secretary root believe the california legislative programme is full of menace to the peace and that the danger ls immediate and positive the japanese ambassador bluntly in formed the secretary of state that the united states is not keeping faith under the agreement reached a year agu with japan on the immigration question where as japan ls strictly living np to that agree ment the examiner correspondent is informed positively that japan feels that her honor is questioned in the proposed california legislation and in his personal communica tion to secretary root baron takahira made no concealment of the fact that his nation's pride had been hurt the diplomat recurred to the old ques tion of the right of a state to commit acts that are inconsistent and at variance with the obligations of the national gov ernment he refused to be mollified by the explanations made to him by secretary root regarding the sovereignty of the in dividual state doesn't know state's rights takahira bluntly informed secretary root that after all his government does not know california in the premises japan's agreement having been entered into with the united states government in this condition the matter rests the president and secretary root have had frequent conferences and that the former feels how serious the situation is is seen in his remarks last night his appeal to governor gillett is further proof the president feels strongly that the ob jection to japanese immigration in this country is fast being settled by the agree ment in existence between the united states and japan by this agreement the president points out 2,000 more japanese have left america in thc past six mouths than have come in he is convinced that japan is sillcere ta ther intentions to greatly reduce the num senators chosen for wexi six years r t*b.e following senators were â– *â– elected yesterday in various states or their election was as sured by action of legislative cau causes elihu root new york hep 3 f shively zndlana . . dem t p gore oklahoma dem oeo b chamberlain oregon dem t b brandegree conn bep boies penrose penn hep j h oallinffer n h bep li s overman n c dem j p clarke a.rk dem cl crawford s d bep eeed smoot utah bep a b cummins lowa bep c j kug-fcez colo dem eo-elected abruzzi renounces rank to marry miss elkins paris newspaper asserts failure to receive admiralty as wed ding preliminary explains duke's se clusion during earthquake relief i special cable to the examiner paris jan 10.-the petit parisieu to morrow will print under the spread head un coup de theatre a long story as serting that the duke of the abruzzi has handed king victor his resignation as an officer of the italian navy and also re nounced his rank and privileges as a mem ber of the royal house of savoy in order to marry katherine elkins according to the story the duke took this step after waiting in vain for a prom ised promotion to the rank of admiral which had been decided upon at a confer ence of the royal family as a necessary preliminary ot the sanction of the proposed marriage with the american girl the story hae not yet beeu confirmed although it would seem to account for the silence and seclusion of the adventurous young duke during the trying times fol lowing the sicilian earthquake the petit parisien asserts that wheu the duke of the abruzzi returned to italy after his last visit to the united states he informed the king of his desire to marry miss elkins the king was dlspojifid to consent bnt thought it advisable to sum mon a family council queen margherlta and the duke of genoa opposed the marri age while the count of turin and the duke of aosta pleaded the lover's cause the king found himself in an embarrass ing position and il was decided to tem porize the king asked the duke to post pone an official announcement of his en gagement until he had been appointed ad j miral two months ago the duke terminat j ed his service ae a captain and since then j has been waiting in turin for his promo 1 tion and for permission to many but neither has been granted him the petit parisien asserts tbat the duke therefore wrote to the king renouncing his rank and privileges in order that a private gentleman he might be free to marry miss elkins the king refused to accept the duke's resignation and there the matter stands hetty green's health shattered by business america's richest woman takes-rest cure in hoboken flat new tork jan 19 mrs hetty green the richest woman in america ls taking the rest cure ln hoboken she is in rather poor health as the result of too close attention to business and is not visit ing her new york office these days she remains in her apartments in a flat house on bloomfleld street until late in the fore noon and then goes for s walk miss syl via green is spending the winter with her mother while she is not taking an active part in social gaiety of the city she is not entirely secluding herself from society and has made the acquaintance of several families in the upper section w n c carlton is to be newberry librarian trinity college man is selected to succeed john vance cheney william n c carlton librarian of trin ity college of hartford conn has ac cepted a call to succeed john vance cheney as superintendent of the newberry library and will come to Chicago about july 1 to assume his new duties mr cheney filed his resignation some time ago and announces that he will go to cali fornia to live he will remain in active charge of the library until the arrival of mr carlton to whom thc offer of the superlntendency was tendered by the board of trustees gooley surrenders to art institute investigation committee sud denly collapses book trust connection still a secret injunction is promised teachers to seek courts for credit continuation if school head refuses the board of education has dropped its contest with the art institftte of Chicago school trustee alfred r urion chairman of the school board's investigating commit tee carried the white flag of surrender to charles u hutchinson of the art institute yesterday this surprising termination of a contro versy that has agitated Chicago for several days ine^ns that it will probably never be disclosed whether the attack made by su perintendent cooley upon the art institute was actually instigated by the schoolbook trust as has been freely charged by the art institute's defenders and by the chi cago teachers federation leaders declines to investigate chairman urion pointed out that he had gone on record with the statement that his committee wÂ»s not an investigating ; committee then be announced to the j astonished president of the art institute i that the committee would live up to his de 1 scrlption of its non-investigating functions | and that it would not investigate at least not for some time it was then arranged that thc beariug be adjourned subject to the call of the chairman this means that the hearing has beeu postponed indefinitely perhaps permanent ly for it developed later that mr urion is going out of town for a loug trip and | during his absence nobody else can call i the committee together the next meeting on this subject will probably be held behind closed doors in tht union league club where mr cooley wili be iu the hands of his friends said school trustee loul f post when he heard of the surrender of cooley's friends ] in fact it is very likely a meeting has ] already beet held there investigation disclosed that this was cor ! reet tt was learned that mr cooley mr ilutehjusofi and nine other persons said tot be meu'.i.ors of the board of education pri rc-pityeiitaiives of the art institute met atj luncheon iu the clnb yesterday afternoou i â– ami discussed the cooley art institute con j i trovcrsy j injunction suit possible j if the art institute is not soon restored to the accredited list it is probable that an injunction suit will be filed by members of j the Chicago teachers federation to re strain superintendent cooley front forbid ding the school teachers to take the promo tional credit courses at that institution oniy two members of the committee chairman urion and trustee ii j spiegel were present when the decision to have no meeting was made public among the other members of the board on hand to hear the discussion were trustees post sonsteby guerin mills robiue dawes and schneider none of whom knew any thing mrs ella f young principal of the Chicago normal school and super intendent cooley whose uames had been signed to the report iu which the art in stitute was attacked arrived late there was a flood of speculation as to the causes that promoted the indefinite postponement among the questions asked b.v trustees representatives of the teachers and others were is somebody to be given a coat of whitewash v why were the cooleyites afraid to go on with the investigation of the alleged relations betweeu cooley's office and the prang publishing company a branch of the school book trust did the expected exposure of thc school book trust's influence in causing the cooley attack ou the art institute have anything to do with the postponement of the hear ing mr hutchinson was asked i will not discuss that matter at this time lt would hardly be proper he said is there any arrangement for restoring the art institute to the list of institutions at which teachers may take promotional credits that's another subject that i will not discuss at this time coward and liar fly in evanston's council alderman norkett applies terms to turnock then makes peace alderman turnock you are a coward and liar when you state that i am playing to the gallery shouted alderman william a norkett of evanston last night in the council meeting after much loud talk mayor padeu succeeded in restoring order before a tight occurred the incident followed the defeat of norkett's ordinance to raise the pay of three men in the water department he had accused his colletigueri of being afraid to use the mon ey of the city this angered turnock who shouted that norkett was playing to the gallery the two men left the council chamber arm in arm after apolo gies and handshakes grover cleveland's old home put up for sale princeton n j jan 19 the home of the late grover cleveland here is ad vertised for sale the house had been mr cleveland's home ever since his retirement from the white house march 4 1597 it was purchased by him after he relinquished the presidency and soon after he delivered the sesquicentennial address at princeton university which was one of bis lost of ficial acts as president a joy ride in dixie heroine burned in theater explosion woman stops panic when picture machine sets show place afire by an explosion of a moving picture film in the crescent o-cent theater 5827 went worth avenue last night two men and a woman were burned and a pattic was caused among fifty persons who were in the place the injured were thomas r colon twen ty-eight years old operator of picture ma chine 1703 michigau avenue burned about the face head arms and body taken to his borne after being attended by a physician condition serious james gibson twenty-four years old 1410 ashland avenue colon's assistant hurhed about face head and arms while trying to extinguish the flames mrs edith smith thirty-five years old piano player 5002 fifth avenue burned about the hands while assisting gibson in ex tinguishing the tire ou colon's clothing mrs smith was taken to a physician's office and later home the theater which is owned by w h sergeant was damaged 250 colon was in a small fireproof box above the entrance to the theater operating the machine when it exploded â€¢ his clothing was ignited before he could climb down a ladder into the box office of the theater and run into the street he was badly burned mrs smith was sitting at the piano and realizing what occurred she as sisted the men womeu and children into the street and there she saw gibson trying to extiuguish the flames on colon's cloth ing in putting them out mrs smith was burned as was gibson firemen extinguished the blaze before the flpmes spread from the fireproof box to other parts of the theater which is a two-story brick building when the fire men arrived the smoke in the place was dense and it was with difficulty they were able to fight the flames Chicago students win laurels at harvard oscar mayer and forrest cooke elected to phi beta kappa boston mass jan hi oscar g mayer 09 and korrest h cooke 10 both of Chicago were yesterday elected to the phi beta kappa society at har vard together with george e roosevelt of new york the president's nephew and nineteen other leaders in academic work additional honors fell to mr cooke a junior who was chosen as orator of the chapter on phi beta kappa day at the coming commencement election to the society is based entirely ou scholarship and good character and is the highest hooor iu a scholastic way that can be won in col lege the list also includes tien tin chao of tientsin china kevork costikyan an armenian student and haus vou kalteu beru of madison wis but a native of germany want a practical nurse phone ran dolph 2500 m0 * senate votes to raise salary of president to 100,000 a year vice president speaker and supreme court justices also have pay boosted by upper house washington d c jan 19.-presi deut-elect taft's salary will be 100,000 speaker cannon's 13,000 vice-president sherman's 15,000 chief justice fuller's 13,000 and his eight associates 14,500 a year under the salary bill which passed the senate to-day mr roosevelt now gets 50,000 mr fairbanks 12,000 and mr cannon 12,000 for the latter two positions the increase will appear to be 3,000 but inasmuch as allowances for carriages horses drivers and their maintenance are stricken from the present appropriation bill their in comes il not be greatly enhanced the president's compensation because that is what seuator bailey insisted it should be designated instead ot salary is increased about 40,000 he ls not to be given 25,000 for traveling expenses as the law now provides but must pay for his special car but according to in formation furnished by senator clay on the floor to-day president roosevelt spends annually only about 8,000 of bis allow ance turniug the remaining 17,000 into the treasury circuit judges now receiving 7,000 and federal district judges receiving 0,000 will have their salaries increased at to-morrow's session the former probably being raised to 10,000 and the latter to 7,500 religious maniac hunts for roosevelt as cain capital police arrest c n evans in house subway washington jan 19.-charles n p evans said to be afflicted with religious insanity was arrested to-day by the cap it police he was found in the house subway where he was hunting for presi dent roosevelt he told the police he had discovered that the president is cain who killed abel god had instructed him he said to seek out president roosevelt and has promised that no barm shall come to him ouly a few days ago the capitol po lice had to deal with a crank who wns searching for george washington the first president he said had given him some seed from thp fauious cherry tree and he wanted to return it thaw fears mind test in new york county white plains n y jan 19.-rather than have his sanity tested ln new york county harry thaw through his attor neys olÂ»tained an order from justice tomp kins to-day dismissing the writ of habeas corpus grauted last week under which he was to have appeared before a judge in new york county to have his mental con dition investigated the action of thaw's attorney came as a complete surprise the securing of a new trial had beeu regarded as the flrst step in gaining his freedom from matteawau although it was conceded by those familiar with the case that dis trict attorney jerome had gained a stron poiut in having the case transferred to new york rflauty tolb wife of love for mrs atherton captain stirling openly ad mired rival divorce pe titioner testifies edinburgh jan 19 members of the smart set of london society were present in large numbers in the court of sessions here to-day for the first day's hearing of the stirling divorce case in which cross petitions were filed by john alexander stirling former lieutenant of the king's guards and laird of kippendavle perth shire and his wife formerly clara eliza beth taylor of washington both of the persons named in the case were in court to-day lord northland was accompanied by his father earl ranfurly mrs mabel louise atherton named by mrs stirling sat alone close to the wit ness box while mrs stirling told how she had stolen her husband's love after our matrlage in october 1904 she said i kept the matter secret at my husband's request until he could resign his commission after beiifg remarried in church in washington we returned to perthshire no married couple were ever happier than we until mrs atherton ap peared my husband introduced me to her at clarldge's and asked me to be a friend to her because she felt deserted since her divorce and her subsequent breach of promise suit against captain yarde buller i would have been suspicious had she not declared that yarde buller was the only man she could ever love says he loved mrs atherton she next told of the trip that she and her husband and mrs atherton and lord northland took to paris there her hus band refused to occupy the same room with her at the hotel and one morning she found him at the side of mrs ather tcn's bed after several days during which her hus band spoke scarcely a word to her spend ing the time in mrs atherton's company she called him aside and said jack are you in love with mrs ather ton he answered 1 don't know but i think i must be kiddie i don't think we should have married mrs stirling said she returned to the hotel weeping and that night she said to mrs atherton nancy i believe jack is in love with you mrs atherton shrugged her shoulders and answered that's absurd for i love only one man captain yards buller continuing mrs stirling said when we returned to amberly cottage jack refused to occupy my room white mrs athertou occupied a room communi cating with thc bathroom saying she had a sentimental feeling for lt because cap tain yarde ittiller had slept there later i saw jack sitting on mrs atherton's bed after midnight occupied house in absence when i left to visit america both jack and mrs atherton saw me off i never hopkins is 27 votes short in joint caucus chances lessen in party round-up after he fails on assembly floors lacks 13 votes in house allies jubilant and count on deadlock in joint bal loting to-day deneen's hard workvain hurls all his officeholders into balance to help the aurora man springfield 111 jan 19 senator albert j hopkins ls still struggling with an adverse fate he had a roll call at noon to-day in the separate houses of the general assembly and a joint caucus to-night j of the republican members of tnese 7 two houses yet he canuo ead his title clear to another term ia the na tional senate the roll call gave the senator a total of 87 votes 61 in the house and 26 in the senate if he had had 13 more votes in the house at that time lie would have won but when the two houses meet in joint session to-mor row he will need 15 more than i â€¢ total of yesterday provided all tha members are present has only 75 in caucus in the joint caucus to-night that was called at the behest of governor deneen to satisfy the demand of hopkins he counted a total of seventy-five votes twenty-eight from the senate and forty-seven from the house that is twenty-seven votes short of a majority of the jolnr membership his friends counted three absentees as be ing certainly for hopkins but that brought the total np to bnt seventy-eight leaving him twenty four votes short of control â– Â»â€¢ a total of fifty-one members of both houses ten senators and forty-one repre sentauvesâ€”stayed out of the caucus of that number nineteen voted for hopkins ea the roll call to-day and it ie cutu get them all he would still be five votes short of enough on the joint ballot to-morrow however it is a eertainty that he will not get all he may get fifteen giving him a total of ninety-three or nine less than enough to make victory certain on the face of the returns the deadlock the anti-hopkins men have hoped for schemed for and prayed f â€¢ 5 ichfoyca consequently the antis are full of fight and happy the pro-hopkins men are making only a bluff at smiling and are only hang ing on and hoping sims a hopkins hopeful we've got them whipped declared david b shauahan of the antis when he heard of the failure of the caucus well we hope we'll win and it ook like they ought to come around said dis trict attorney sims of the hopkins ca.-np the hopkins forces made theft great fight to-day wheu the antis were without their chief troublemaker be it understood loin imer was in Chicago attending the funeral of mayor busse's father but ji got oack to-night at midnight well satisfied with ths condition and ready to do a little planning and scheming on his own account the hopkins effort also bad the full strength of governor deneen th gov ernor was called upon to deliver votes ?.. â€¢" soon as the noonday roll r-nll showed tha senator needed them and he did his best or at least he gave ever appearance of doing his best he not only worked him self but he called npon all hlb henchmen to do their best every state and county officeholder the governor can control was in the game struggling in tho fine old nay that they used to accomplish things to make deliveries bosses have little influence so far as the bosses wen charlea vatl t j healy hanby jones and men like that they did not lift a pound not a mag who had voted i;r ' st hopliiis wi â™¦ tru the caucus in response to tho pleau.jbi cl the bosses with the governor it was a different matter he was out to make good and he turned over a total of seven votes to tho auburn-haired auroran who is for the time j being his ally that seven the goverumdÃŸ took as though by the scruffs of their nei^b and landed them in the hopkins cau^h after they had voted for either fossfl mason ou the roll calls of their respec^b houses those seven were senators bro-ih ettelson jones and lundberg and kep^h sentatlves abbey hull and pierson â– those who attended the caucus il bound by it according to general uudeh standing but no rule was passed to tbih effect consequently no one can say hcvl^b long they are to be bound or when thejh shall break to some candidate other tiaj hopkins ____\ mo those actually and tim on sth page 3d column j continued on sth page 2d couinya r forecast il jd vicinity â€” fair and thursday slight changes fresh west j g to southerly winds afffl the inauguration two 3'ears ago of the up-to date methods sine em ployed by the examiner for the bringing together of employer and employe have been so satisfactory that the examiner employment ex change is now recognized among employers as an in valuable agency in the em 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